Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side

by Robert B Talisse

Book Overview

Democracy is not easy. Citizens who disagree sharply about politics must nonetheless work together as equal partners in the enterprise of collective self-government. Ideally, this work would be conducted under conditions of mutual civility, with opposed citizens nonetheless recognizing one another's standing as political equals. But when the political stakes are high, and the opposition seems to us severely mistaken, why not drop the democratic pretences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197556450
• ISBN13: 9780197556450
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"